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<\/p>\nBrazilian footballer Bruno Fernandes has been ordered to return to jail to continue serving his 22-year-term for his role in the kidnapping and murder of his former girlfriend in 2010.<\/p>\n
The ex-Flamengo goalkeeper was released on parole in February pending an appeal after seven years in jail.<\/p>\n
He admitted conspiring with friends who murdered Eliza Samudio and fed her body to dogs, but denied direct involvement.<\/p>\n
His release sparked anger, particularly after he was hired by a football club.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Brazil’s Supreme Court said in a statement that it “has revoked its decision suspending his (Fernandes’) imprisonment”.<\/p>\n
A court source said the footballer must return to custody “with immediate effect”, AFP news agency reports.<\/p>\n
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Eliza Samudio was abducted from a hotel in Rio de Janeiro and strangled<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 AFP\/Getty<\/em><\/p>\n Fernandes, better known as Bruno among football fans, was released last month.<\/p>\n His lawyers argued successfully that he could not be held in custody as the courts had failed to hear his appeal within the required time.<\/p>\n In March, Fernandes, 32, signed for Brazilian second division club Boa Esporte.<\/p>\n The signing triggered protests from fans and the withdrawal of several Boa Esporte sponsors.<\/p>\n In 2010, Bruno Fernandes was a successful goalkeeper and had been tipped to play for Brazil in the 2014 Fifa World Cup finals.<\/p>\n Brazilians were shocked at his arrest and subsequent confession that he knew that Ms Samudio had been strangled and her remains fed to his dogs.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said that Fernandes had had her killed to avoid paying pay child maintenance for their baby son.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source\u00a0 bbc.co.uk<\/a>Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazilian footballer Bruno Fernandes has been ordered to return to jail to continue serving his 22-year-term for his role in the kidnapping and murder of his former girlfriend in 2010. The ex-Flamengo goalkeeper was released […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[786],"class_list":{"0":"post-6975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world","9":"tag-brazil","10":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6981,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions\/6981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}